The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (April 5) ratified a plan to merge the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and the Division of Construction Engineering and Management. The change will be effective July 1, 2024, when the school's name will be changed to the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering.

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Arezoo Ardekani, professor of mechanical engineering, to its College of Fellows.

Semiconductors and chips are at the heart of everything we do. They are some of the most fiendishly complex engineered devices ever built, and are getting even more complex as we race to develop chips with mind-boggling power to fuel artificial intelligence. Chips are also a national security priority, which is why the CHIPS Act aims to onshore, or near shore, semiconductor manufacturing. This is all in Purdue's wheelhouse, as America's "Semiconductor University." Mark Lundstrom, Purdue's chief semiconductor officer, draws upon his 50 years in the field to discuss technologies like advanced packaging that are driving sector innovation forward; the challenges to building out an enduring semiconductor ecosystem in the United States; and how Purdue is tackling the No. 1 industry challenge — workforce development — by leading an urgent, ambitious effort to educate engineers and skilled technicians for the most sophisticated and foundational technology we humans manufacture.

SK hynix Inc. announced April 3 that it plans to invest close to $4 billion to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products in the Purdue Research Park.

Purdue University's College of Engineering sesquicentennial will be a yearlong celebration, starting in September 2024.

Siva Seetharaman, an assistant professor of industrial engineering, has been selected as this year’s Outstanding Young Investigator Award from IISE’s Energy Systems Division.

Anand Raghunathan, the Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been chosen to receive Purdue University’s 2023 Arden L. Bement Jr. Award. The award is given annually to a university researcher who has made highly significant and impactful contributions in pure and applied sciences and engineering.

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Chien-Chi Lin, a Purdue University professor in biomedical engineering in Indianapolis, to its College of Fellows.

It's widely agreed by all that United States infrastructure is in dire need of improvement, getting low grades like C- and D- in various studies. Luna Lu wants to make our aging infrastructure "smarter." She’s leveraging the Internet of Things via her smart, materials-based sensor technology and novel, interpretive data-processing methods, enabling infrastructure to monitor and wirelessly communicate its condition with current and actionable information so we can detect problems earlier and mitigate them. This can vastly improve infrastructure maintenance and modernization, so our roads and bridges can keep commerce and people moving safely and efficiently and the American economy humming. And Lu isn’t done with her innovation journey – her sensor-based testing technology is gaining wider use across other sectors, and next on her agenda is investigating the manufacture of plant-based cement to provide not only carbon neutrality but a carbon-negative construction material that can absorb CO₂ in permanent storage.

Andres Arrieta, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Rodney Trice, professor of materials engineering, are designing aircraft systems with multistable structures — components that can take on multiple shapes in response to external forces.